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World Cinema; The other cinema around the world.
Topic Started: Nov 29 2006, 05:16 PM (1,739 Views)
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Discuss and share the other movies from around the world here!! :flower:

Soo many films, soo many gems of movies!!
And not to forget the great actors, actresses, directors,......


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Ye[ll]oW
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I am Josey Wales!!!
Wang-ui Namja aka The king and the Clown (2005)

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Two clowns living in the Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution, but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.

It was a fine movie but the King being a bi-sexual disturbed the whole setting. Overall it was enjoyable, the second half was exageratting. Performances were good and the climax was sick in the meaning of being sad :-(

***1/2

A Tale of Two Sisters

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Climax was shocking...a very good story indeed.

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Under the weight of life, Things seem brighter on the other side...
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^^ Movies from the far east. Has my interest. :)

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A Tale of Two Sisters
Climax was shocking...a very good story indeed.


This DVD "A Tale of Two Sisters" I was looking at some days ago on the net to see
if it was interesting enough. Looked good and now you I see you find it also a
good movie also. So more reason the watch this movie.

And why was the climax shocking? We will have to see some blood? :omg:

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Wang-ui Namja aka The king and the Clown (2005)
It was a fine movie but the King being a bi-sexual disturbed the whole setting.


Story sounds very familiar. European fairytales or something like that.

I think I know what you mean with disturbing the setting. :lol:
Btw. its a Chinese movie, right?
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Ye[ll]oW
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Kenn
Feb 20 2007, 02:24 PM
And why was the climax shocking? We will have to see some blood?  :omg:

if you want to know the climax then there is no use for you to watch it :P :D

Kenn
Feb 20 2007, 02:24 PM
Story sounds very familiar. European fairytales or something like that.

i had the same feeling :-D

Kenn
Feb 20 2007, 02:24 PM
Btw. its a Chinese movie, right?

nope...i mostly watch Korean cinema since it is better then all! :-D
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if you want to know the climax then there is no use for you to watch it


Yes, you are right there. Can spoil the movie. :P

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nope...i mostly watch Korean cinema since it is better then all!


Ok, I see.

I was always fond of the older Chinese and Japanese fighting movie.
With these kind of movies I grew up with when we are talking about the far east movies.

Later I watched the other kind of movies also. And I liked them also.
Korean movies are a bit the same, but it seems to have some more violent and blood i have the impression.
For some reason it don't like that much. It looks sometimes too much of it.
But haven't seen that much of Korean Movies though. :angelwings:

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Ye[ll]oW
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oh...i see. So u dont like blood and gore movies. Have you see "Kung Fu Hustle"?!?
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Blood is ok I think, but sometimes it just looks gore.
And then I don't like it.

In the good old b/w asian movies you also saw a lot of violent.
But you saw hardly blood and still the movie looked really good.
Also in emotional aspect.
You still find this kind of movies made in China or Japan. It isn't overflow with blood.
But not in Korean movies I have the impression. Atleast not in the Korean "chop chop" movies.


But these days I prefer the more "Normal" movies to watch.
Movies with a story or social underlining.
Just saw a week ago the movie "The little Chinese Seamstress".
Its a Chinese movie but produced by France. It was also synchronized in Frence.
Thats a bit too bad. Always more interesting when they speak in their own language.

Wanted to make a post here about the movie, but some otherday.
Its about 2 guys (student) who are send to a rehalibation camp to get their Westernized Ideas out of their head. The movie is placed in the early 70', so
China still was closed for the west.

And ofcourse their is also a local girl. 2 guys and 1 girl. That is good for a nice story. :P
The movie is about friendship, love and the influence of literature on the people and the liberation effect of literature.

Nice movie, no blood or violent. :)

Well maybe there is one scene.
The pulling out of a tooth without anaesthetic. :P

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Ye[ll]oW
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hmmm...sounds different. I know what you mean but so far what i have seen is not that bloody :P
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Its ok, like I said before. Have seen only a few Korean movies.
Will try to watch the good ones when possible. :)
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Synopsis

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.

They are Raimunda (Pénelope Cruz), who is married to an unemployed labourer and has a teenage daughter (Yohana Cobo); Sole (Lola Dueñas), her sister, who makes a living as a hairdresser; and the mother of both (Carmen Maura), who died in a fire along with her husband. This character appears first to her sister (Chus Lampreave) and then to Sole, although the people with whom she has some unresolved matters are Raimunda and her neighbour in the village, Agustina (Blanca Portillo).

Volver is not a surrealistic comedy although it may seem so at times. The living and the dead coexist without any discord, causing situations that are either hilarious or filled with a deep, genuine emotion. It's a film about the culture of death in my native La Mancha. The people there practice it with an admirable naturalness. The way in which the dead continue to be present in their lives, the richness and humanity of their rites mean that the dead never die.

Volver destroys all the clichés about "black" Spain and offers a Spain that is as real as it is the opposite. A Spain that is white, spontaneous, funny, intrepid, supportive and fair.


I really loved this movie :clap: Penelope is great she have to make more spainish movie's she is great in it :clap:
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005)

Director: Dai Sijie
Photography: Jean-Marie Dreujou
Composer: Pujian Wang
Starring: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun-chang, Liu Ye, Wang Shuangbao

Synopsis:
Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The Little Chinese
Seamstress), a film adaptation of his own best-selling autobiographical novel. Set
in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen
Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain
village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They work with the peasants under
the supervision of the village head man (Wang Shuangbao), who considers their
violin to be a symbol of the bourgeoisie. Luo and Ma both fall in love with the little
Chinese seamstress (Ziiou Xun), the daughter of the tailor (Chung Zhijun), and
they read her forbidden works of Western literature including French writers
Balzac and Dumas. The conclusion finds the two men reminincing about their experiences 20 years later.

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THE IDEA of literature having a significant effect on one's life is pretty commonplace in the free world. We are used to reading as widely as we have time and energy for. So it takes a movie like "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress," set during China's repressive Cultural Revolution, to make us realize what an extraordinary gift it is to be able to read books and draw wisdom from the experience.

The Chinese movie, which director Dai Sijie co-adapted (with Nadine Perront) from his book of the same name, follows the saga of four main characters, all of whom are caught up in Mao Zedong's reeducation program. Under this dictate of the 1970s, city dwellers are forced to live in the rural districts to purge themselves of bourgeois sentiments and learn how to live collectively.

Two city-raised teenage friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are dispatched to a mountain village for their indoctrination. Considered to be middle-class elitists, they are required to submit to the village leader (Shuangbao Wang), who makes them work in the mine, push dirt around and generally perform manual labor. When they're not working, they're forced to worship the new ways of Mao, whether in group gatherings or in watching communist propaganda films.

When the village chief orders Ma, a musician, to play his violin, he performs some Mozart. The chief demands to know what Mozart tune he's playing. Already aware of the anti-bourgeois atmosphere, Ma pauses.

" 'Mozart's Thinking About Chairman Mao,' " he declares. As Ma performs, the camera soars upward, as if in sympathetic celebration. This is the spirit of freedom, and it lifts everyone.

Luo meets a pretty villager in a neighboring hamlet, whom he dubs the Little Seamstress (Xun Zhou) for the work she does for an old tailor (Zhijun Cong). She loves to hear stories, but she cannot read, he learns. Determined to "cure her of her ignorance," Luo wants to make her literate, so he steals a cache of banned books (translated works of Balzac, Dostoevsky and Kipling, among others) and reads to her in secret. She likes Balzac. And as Mao's reeducation program continues all over China, Luo and Ma do their little bit to wave the flag of global awareness.

If the movie is straightforward and predictable in its attitude, it also exudes a sort of documentary lyricism. This is clearly a timepiece, culled directly from Dai's experiences. Who could have made up the scene, after all, in which Luo and Ma create an impromptu dental device for the chief's toothache, using a sewing machine for a drill and pouring melted tin into his painful cavity? In fact, Dai was sent to just such a reeducation camp when he was 17. Those events may have taken place more than 30 years ago, but the mentality doesn't seem to have changed completely. Dai has said in interviews that the Chinese censors who watched the film declared the characters to be caricatures of communism. They also wanted to know if Dai could change the story so that Luo and Ma could introduce the Little Seamstress to Chinese, not European, literature. He was smart enough, I'm sure, not to tell them that stories are supposed to be about remembering, not forgetting.

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I really loved this movie  Penelope is great she have to make more spainish movie's she is great in it


Volver seems to be a great movie. Have heard good things about this movie.
Will probably get the DVD later, when the price is better. :angelwings:
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Sarky <3

My Neighbor Totoro(Tonari no Totoro)


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Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros. They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.


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A great movie from the Studio Ghibli :dance:
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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I saw This movie recently:

The Weeping Meadow (Trilogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzei (2004))

Director:Theodoros Angelopoulos

Writers:Theodoros Angelopoulos
Tonino Guerra

casts: Alexandra Aidini,Nikos Poursadinis,Giorgos Armenis,....

Plot Summary:"The Weeping Meadow," the first panel of the trilogy, spans 1919-1949 and begins with a ragged band of Greek refugees from Odessa settling in a village on the misty northern plains. In a transgression of mythic proportions, the orphan Eleni falls in love with her adoptive brother Alexis and, after marrying his widowed father, flees with her lover to the port of Thessaloniki. As the unrest of the 1930s pits fascism against leftism, Alexis, a talented musician, departs for America and leaves Eleni and their two sons behind to bear the brunt of Greek history: World War II, political repression, civil war.

"The Weeping Meadow" was shot entirely in Greece on Kerkini Lake, where an entire village was constructed, and in Thessaloniki, where a refugee settlement was built. The ambition of Angelopoulos's concept is matched by the grandeur of his style, which takes his majestically fluid camerawork to new heights of virtuosity and produces a steady stream of stunning images. An ornate theater is converted into a refugee tenement, a tree is festooned with slaughtered sheep, a funeral flotilla glides across a lake's mirrored surface, and an apocalyptic flood drowns the refugees' village, leaving the skeletons of abandoned houses. More boldly than ever, Angelopoulos juggles foreground and background, personal and political, story and history into an epic vision



My quick and short review:

Although I think Eleni as the main character didnt have so much scope and charactrization(which I can say about other characters too) but this movie is really touching and thoughtful ... Angelopoulos without any doubt is one of the greatest poet in this industry and the best follower of Antonioni 's Cinema(and Tonino Guerra plays an important role in this way because he is a sreen writer for both directors)...this movie might look boring and long with striking shots ..but the director tried to describe many things in every shot. Great music and using of symbolisms and Greek's tragedy gave this movie another credit.
8/10
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Romy Schneider

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MONPTI (1957)

Helmut Käutner - Director

Cast
Romy Schneider - Anne Claire
Horst Buchholz - Monpti
Mara Lane - Nadine
Boy Gobert - Monpti II

Short synopsys
Monpti is better known by its English-language title Love From Paris. Romy Schneider
stars as Anne Claire, a seamstress who pretends to be wealthy in order to crash
society. In this guise, she meets and falls in love with starving artist Monpti (Horst Buchholz),
who has no time for women of wealth. Sensing a challenge, Anne pursues Monpti,
keeping her true identity a secret. What starts as a light-hearted romp unexpectedly
deepens into tragedy. The film is narrated by a wry, all-knowing Parisian who, at closer
inspection, turns out to be director Helmut Kautner.


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My Neighbor Totoro(Tonari no Totoro)
A great movie from the Studio Ghibli 


Yes, it seems to be but haven't seen it yet.

I just got recently 2 other Ghibli movies add to my collection. :clap:

- Howl's Moving Castle.
- Princes Mononoke.


Bahar
 
I saw This movie recently:
The Weeping Meadow (Trilogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzei (2004))

...this movie might look boring and long with striking shots ..but the director tried to describe many things in every shot. Great music and using of symbolisms and Greek's tragedy gave this movie another credit.


Even a boring can be interseting to watch. :)
Nice review and great to see some recommendations of the Greek Cinema.
Thats what World Cinema is about. :)


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...Ganga Se Sagar Ka Sangam...
I watched Run Lola Run Today and Bank (its an aussie movie..in english..im not sure if it's considered world cinema but any way)

Run Lola Run

Omg... i was at the edge of my seat watchin this movie..the second version of the movie..i thot was the most interesting...coz that whole thing about takin money from her dad by force....

i loved the part wher she came out of the place wher her father was...n there were police wid guns outside...n she thot they were after her n then one of them pulled her out of the way..that was hilarious :D


there were bits of the movie i found wierd...n i dint reali understand...like everytime she passed by n bumped into someone like the guy riding the bicycle..he has some sort vision after that...thinking he's a bum or somethin random...n d part wher Mr.Meyers always ends knocking that white car

ooh...i always anticipated the endin bits of each version...coz i wanted to know whether Lola reached Manni on time....


nyways i'll rite a proper review later..im just abit tired rite now
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La Môme (or La Vie En Rose) is a heartbreaking musical biopic of Edith Piaf – one of France’s most treasured singer and icon during the late 1930s to the 1960s (until her death at the age of only 47). Director Oliver Dahan has presented this film beautifully in a non-linear narration of her life where one scene shows her childhood while the next scene jumps when she is in her 30s. Some viewers may be confused with the way it is narrated; however for me the way it was depicted made me understand more about Edith, and how she felt through the times of her loss and triumphs. Danan has done an exceptional job presenting the film very realistically and symbolically.

This film is indeed very different from the many, many musical biopics that are released every year in Hollywood. I recommend this film to those who seek something touching and powerful when it comes to learning the life of someone who is so strong and inspirational. This film is also for those who appreciate the French language and music where in my opinion the dialogues were written beautifully, and the songs are truly amazing, especially ‘Hymne à l'amour’ and ‘Je ne regrette rien’.

This is the role of a lifetime for Marion Cotillard. She delivers a truly memorable and magnificent performance in this film. The rest of the cast has given a strong and commendable performance, but of course this is Marion’s show all the way. For someone who learned about Edith Piaf through only research and books, Marion wasn’t acting as Edith Piaf – she was Edith Piaf.

:clap: One of my favourite films of this year along with Zodiac.
R.I.P. Heath :(
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Anyone seen 'Maria full of Grace'?, I thought it was really good except for the ending.
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